The right to refuse mental health treatment / Bruce J. Winick.
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[1997]
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| Series: | Law and public policy.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT TECHNIQUES: A continuum of intrusiveness
- Psychotherapy
- Behavior therapy
- Psychotropic medication
- Electroconvulsive therapy
- Electronic stimulation of the brain
- Psychosurgery
- PART II: CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON INVOLUNTARY MENTAL HEALTH AND CORRECTIONAL TREATMENT: The Constitution and other sources of legal limitation on governmentally imposed therapy
- The First Amendment and mental health treatment: constitutional protection against interference with mental processes
- Substantive due process and mental health treatment: constitutional protection for bodily integrity, mental privacy, and individual autonomy
- Treatment as punishment: Eighth Amendment limits on mental health interventions
- Religion-based refusal of treatment: constitutional protection for the free exercise of religion
- Are mental patients different? : equal protection limits on involuntary treatments
- Scrutinizing the government's interest in involuntary treatment
- Scrutiny of the means used to accomplish governmental interests
- PART III: EVALUATING AND IMPLEMENTING THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TREATMENT: A therapeutic jurisprudence analysis of the right to refuse mental health treatment
- Waiver of the right to refuse treatment: the requirement of informed consent
- Procedural due process and involuntary therapy: the right to a hearing
- The future of the right to refuse treatment.